Go to Virtual appliance → Monitoring and check that the platform is retrieving metrics. You may have to wait a few minutes

Create alarms for built-in metrics, scaling group metrics, or custom metrics. See Custom Metrics Resources. To work with auto-scaling, we recommend that you create alarms for both the high threshold, when you will require more resources, and the low threshold, when these resources can be retired

Select an entity, a metric, and a metric statistic and enter a threshold, then save the alarm

Create alerts to notify users and to trigger scaling. See Manage Alerts.

Create action plans for cloud bursting and other automation. See Manage Action Plans. For example, use scaling actions to add more VMs for your application or to retire VMs that are no longer needed. Save the action plan, and then add .

Add an alert to trigger the action plan or create a schedule to run it.